A Dhaka court yesterday sent five people, including three police members, who were arrested with 165 gold bars, to jail.
Metropolitan Magistrate Shamsul Arefin passed the order after DB Inspector Md Fazlul Haque produced the accused before the court in a case filed under the code of criminal procedure.
The accused are Sub-Inspector Manzurul Islam, constables Wahidul Islam and Akash Chowdhury of Rampura police station, their source Sajib Sikdar and car driver Mahfuz Alam.
On Tuesday, DB police recovered 165 smuggled gold bars from the custody of Rampura police and arrested the five for not handing over the recovered gold to the government treasury.
It is also mentioned in the police report that a separate case would be filed under the Anti-Corruption Commission. Authorities concerned confirmed the matter.
SI Manjurul and his patrol team, who were on duty in Banasree’s Balurmath area on March 13, chased a microbus on suspicion and later found the vehicle abandoned. They brought the vehicle to the police station and filed a general diary for an abandoned car.
On March 16, two individuals named Samir Bishwash and Jahid Hossain came to the police station to claim the vehicle but could not provide any documents to prove their right. Later, police detained them and found out that they were professional gold smugglers and were transporting 235 gold bars using the microbus.
